Mumbai: A 28-year-old man from West Bengal who allegedly smuggled around 2kg of gold chains worth Rs 1.10 crore from Dubai was arrested by the Customs at the Mumbai International airport on Monday. Tauffik Ahmed arrived from Dubai and walked through the green channel without declaring that he was carrying dutiable goods with him, officials said. The chains were found in his baggage.
BIS seizes 500 water bottles
Chennai: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) seized 500 one-litre water bottles that carried fake ISI labels on Thursday during a search and seizure operation.
BIS director G Bhavani said such offences are punishable with imprisonment up to two years or a fine not less than ₹2lakh. She said if anyone comes across such issues, they can file complaint by using the BIS Care App or by sending an E-Mail to cnbo1@bis.gov.in.
Fake Currency Scam, Davangere: 6 Arrested in Karnataka for Rs 7.7 Lakh Fake Currency Scam
Davangere: Police busted a fake currency racket involved in printing and circulating fake Indian currency and nabbed six persons and confiscated notes worth Rs 7.7 lakh, a car, laptops, colour printers and paper cutters.
Speaking to media persons, here on Wednesday, Superintendent of Police Uma Prashanth said following tip-off on attempts to circulate fake Indian currency notes, police rushed to the service road near Hanagawadi village in Harihar taluk and nabbed two persons-Talavara Kuberappa (58) and Harish (29), residents of Davangere taluk and seized Rs 37,000 fake notes of Rs 500 denominations. Based on the details given by them, police nabbed J Rudresh (39), native of Bhadravathi taluk, Manoj Gowda (21) of T Narasipur taluk, Mysuru district, Sandeep (30) of Mandya district, Krishna Naik (28) of Holalkere taluk and seized Rs 9,000 fake notes of Rs 500 denominations and a car used to circulate fake Indian currency notes. Later, the police rushed to Mysuru and raided a rented house of Rudresh at Kuragalli Megala Koppalu in Mysuru district where fake notes were being printed and seized fake notes and Rs 43,000 valid notes.
Negeri Sembilan Customs seizes contraband cigarettes worth RM4.16m
SEREMBAN, Jan 24 — The Negeri Sembilan Customs Department seized 5.5 million sticks of white cigarettes worth an estimated RM4.16 million near the Gombak rest and service (R&R) area, Selangor on January 14.
Its director, Mohammad Hafiz Ishak said that in the 3.30pm raid, personnel from the state JKDM Enforcement Division stopped a 10-tonne bonded lorry driven by a man in his 20s.
He said an inspection of the lorry found 275,000 packets of white cigarettes, with all of them having fake tax labels and believed classified as prohibited import items under Item 1, Schedule Three/Part II of the Customs (Prohibition on Imports) Order 2023.
“All the exhibits and lorry were confiscated under Section 114 of the Customs Act 1967 and taken to the state JKDM Enforcement Division office for further investigation. The driver was also detained.
Contraband cigarettes seized on Belarus border
The Customs Administration of the State Revenue Service (VID) has found a total of 23,830 packs of cigarettes (476,600 cigarettes) hidden in wagons with loads of dry milk and corn grains on the border of Latvia with Belarus during recent days, VID confirmed January 23.
On Monday, January 22, officials of the Indra customs control point, while conducting a physical customs control of a cargo train from Belarus, found that packs of cigarettes were hidden in the container among bags of dried milk powder. There were 20 boxes of cigarettes in the cargo. As a result of customs control, 206,600 cigarettes or 10,330 packs of ‘NZ Gold’ and ‘Minsk’ brand cigarettes with excise tax stamps of the Republic of Belarus were seized.
A day earlier on Sunday, January 21, sniffer dogs searching for tobacco products discovered smuggled cigarettes in a cargo train that had entered Latvia from Belarus and found that 27 boxes of cigarettes were hidden in the wagon with a cargo of corn. They contained 270,000 cigarettes, or 13,500 packs of NZ Gold cigarettes with excise tax stamps of the Republic of Belarus.
Assam: 2 boats loaded with 228 smuggled sugar bags worth Rs 4,56,000 seized along Indo-Bangladesh border
The alert and vigilant troops of Border Security Force of Border Outpost Sishumara and Boreralga, who were on special Boat patrolling during the early hours of January 20 2024, observed some stealth and suspicious movement of suspected EFC in Hatsingimari under South Salmara Mankachar district along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
On further search operation, the alert and vigilant troops, assessed the situation and immediately swung into action and seized two suspected EFC boat loaded with sugar.
When the boats were searched by the troops they recovered 228 sugar bags (11,400 kg) loaded on it which were immediately seized. The total value of seized sugar is Rs 4,56,000 and the seized boat is Rs 1,65,000.
The BSF troops of 45 BN BSF committed to stop the trans-border crimes like smuggling etc by arresting of smugglers/couriers and seizing of contraband items which are illegally crossing the IB.
Fake Mysore Sandal soap racket cost them Rs 600 crore, suspects KSDL
Last week, the Hyderabad police arrested Rakesh Jain and Mahaveer Jain for allegedly manufacturing and selling fake Mysore Sandal soaps based on inputs from the Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited (KSDL) – the rightful manufacturers of Mysore Sandal soaps.
Speaking to the Indian Express, the managing director of the KSDL, Prashanth said, “We suspect that the loss incurred by our company owing to the fake manufacturers is about Rs 500-600 crore, as they were operating in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and the Hyderabad-Karnataka region for nearly a decade.”
According to reports, a few days ago, Karnataka Industries Minister M B Patil, who is also the KSDL chairman, received an anonymous message about fake Mysore Sandal soaps being sold in Hyderabad. Thereafter, the staff of the firm’s authorised sales office in Secunderabad bought fake products worth Rs 5 lakh and got them tested. However, there was no proper information about the manufacturers.
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Multiple fake medicine gangs busted, set alarm bells ringing
Hyderabad: After busting multiple gangs supplying spurious drugs including commonly used medicines for hypertension, high cholesterol, pain relief and antibiotics, the state Drugs Control Administration (DCA) has sounded an alert asking the general public to be cautious while purchasing drugs. Recently, even fake cancer drugs were found.
The advisory listed out ways to identify a spurious drug including comparing it with previously used product as most of these fake drugs are ‘almost visually identical’.
“The Drugs Control Administration Telangana has seized fake anti-cancer drugs at a godown in Machabollaram in December last year. DCA Telangana also busted counterfeit drug rackets in Hyderabad entering the state from Kashipur in Uttarakhand and Ghaziabad through courier in December last year and January,” the DCA said.
DRI seizes smuggled Korean-made cigarettes worth ₹10 crore
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in Mumbai seized smuggled Korean cigarettes worth ₹10.08 crore, hidden in a shipping container mis-declared as Chinese carpets. The container, intercepted at Nhava Sheva Port, contained 67.20 lakh cigarettes. Investigations are ongoing.
Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)’s Mumbai Zonal Unit recently seized smuggled Korean-made cigarettes worth ₹10.08 crore, which were allegedly imported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in a shipping container mis-declared as Chinese viscose-woven carpets.
The seized container, consisting of 67.20 lakh sticks, was intercepted at the Nhava Sheva Port, Navi Mumbai, on arriving from Dubai’s Port of Jebel Ali recently, DRI sources said.
Based on specific intelligence, the DRI team had intercepted two imported cargo containers in consignment that were declared as Chinese viscose-woven carpets, and one of them yielded the smuggled foreign cigarettes on closer inspection, the sources said.
Cops bust fake tea & soap making unit
Hyderabad: City taskforce sleuths along with Malakpet police raided a house in Moosarambagh on Saturday and arrested two persons for selling fake soap and tea powder.
Acting on specific alert from the representatives of a popular soap brand, police teams raided a house at East Prashant Nagar in Moosarambagh. Police seized 67 cartons of soap and also seized spurious tea powder.
Police arrested two persons, Rakesh Jain and Mahaveer Jain for operating the racket. Based on the information obtained from the duo, police raided two other places in Malakpet market and Jeedimetla and seized two machines which were used in manufacturing the fake product.
“We have seized two machines, packaging material, empty cartons, fake soaps of a popular brand and spurious tea powder. The accused were filling the spurious tea powder in cartons of popular brands for sale in the city,” Malakpet police said, adding that the house in Moosarambagh was being used as a godown to carry out their illegal activities.